A males world looks something like this in New Zealand.
– you are born and go into an educational system that is failing you.
– your world is threaded with a media that continually sends out the message that most things negative in society are you fault. It also constantly presents your gender in advertising as bumbling, stupid and worthy of ridicule.
– That has probably depressed you into two options, kill yourself, which is one of the only things you are demonstrably successful at, or depart for other countries who might be more prepared to embrace you as having some worth.

Good comment Adi O Cathain. I would add to that the men who have tried to start a family, and lost their family, and the men who are discouraged from trying to start a family. I have two grown-up sons who do not plan to have families in NZ, for these reasons.
The situation for young women is also bleak- when I was young it was always said that men were only after one thing- snigger. In fact what most young men were actually after was a wife and mother for their children. Now that that is no longer a realistic expectation, a marriage or child raising relationship carrying too much financial and emotional risk, The most likely outcome of a family relationship for a man is to end up back single, but with crippling financial costs, and even more emotionally crippling loss of his children. I would imagine that more or less casual sex would be the only attraction in women now.
How sad to meet young women doing everything they can to attract a man from the dwindling pool into a stable relationship. Instead of the expectation of meeting a nice man, and perhaps a family,how sad it is to see them having to settle for just ‘good sex’ and whatever consolation they find in their career.
“Isn’t it wonderful I can have a career instead of JUST being a mother” sounds rather sad to me.
Fortunately, their are other more family focussed cultures waiting to take our place when we become extinct- now isn’t that nice?

The Census is a important source of information. One we must all be able to trust. One that enables researchers to analogise information with confidence.

It is an offence not to fill it in. That’s how important it is.
Correct me if I am wrong. $500 fine if you don’t. So important that the Ministers and Executive have publicly stated that they would prosecute anybody caught not filling it in.

I am still waiting to be prosecuted for 2006. I even asked them. Please prosecute me. Cowards!
Maybe they thought I would win.

Lets find out.

Judge(all Lawyers filled it in) “what is your reason for not filling it in”
Me(refuse to fill it in) “I wherever possible, refuse to participate in Human Rights Violations, especially acts of sexual bigotry that have perverse resultants”

Judge “I noticed no such thing, I filled it in, you must be seeing things that nobody else does, or your stupid. There is no Human Rights Violation in the Census, even the Human Rights Commissioner filled it in. That’s proof enough for me to say that’s just absurd rubbish”
Me “So when you got to the question about the number of children that are biologically yours, did you notice that to the Crown, that only women can be the biological parent to a child”
Judge “Well it has to be a service for it to be a Human Rights Violation. A question is not a service is it?”
Me “Depends if you think, ‘knowledge is a service’. Can the Minister of Statistics come to this court as a witness to the information gathered by the Census and answer questions without providing a sexually bigoted response”
Judge “Like what? I saw no such thing in the Census”
Me
What happens when information is cross referenced?
25 year old females with 1 biological child vs 25 year old males with 1 biological child.
What are there educational achievements?
What is their income, and where does it come from?
What are their rates of imprisonment?
What is their housing situation?
etc etc etc

The suppression, manipulation, ignorance, and avoidance of information is what enables the committing of Human Rights Violations.

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